Tag: News
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Computer Security: 20 years of securing controls (or trying to): mitigations
We’ve seen in the past two Bulletins that control system cybersecurity is the black sheep of IT, a hard-to-change tanker’s course. Still, with significant daily damage of 250 000 USD for ALMA, the costs of falling to a cyberattack can no longer be ignored
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Accelerator Report: 2025 is another record-breaking year for protons in the LHC
The 2025 LHC proton run has come to a close, with record performance delivered to all experiments. The LHC now gears up for the upcoming lead-ion run
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Arts at CERN and the Nobel Prize Museum collaborate on the Collide residency
Arts at CERN and the Nobel Prize Museum launch the first open call for Collide Stockholm
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Biodiversity project takes flight
The “Ambient” initiative is using artificial intelligence to identify birdsong on the CERN sites and monitor biodiversity
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First observation of single top quark production with W and Z bosons
This incredibly rare phenomenon, observed at the CMS experiment, can help probe the fundamental forces of nature
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Ion recycling to illuminate the heaviest elements
A sophisticated electrostatic trap at CERN’s ISOLDE facility could help researchers probe the chemical reactivity of the rarest and least understood elements
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Computer Security: 20 years of securing controls (or trying to): black swans and convergence
While eagerly expected by experts, the first dominant incident on control systems reported by the media was the Stuxnet attack of 2010 against the Iranian nuclear programme allegedly conducted by some secret services
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CMS congratulates its 2024 Thesis Award and 2025 Young Researcher Prize winners
2024 CMS PhD Thesis Award During the September 2025 CMS week, the CMS collaboration announced the winners of the 2024 CMS PhD Thesis Award. After a rigorous evaluation of a remarkable pool of 19 nominees, the collaboration honoured Congqiao Li (Peking University, CN), Christina Wenlu Wang (California Institute of Technology (Caltech), US) and Ho Fung
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Accelerator Report: When plans meet reality…
The two beams circulating in the LHC are currently running with different bunch intensities – an unexpected (but successful) premiere, giving us a good chance to reach last year’s luminosity record
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Molecules of pear-shaped atomic nuclei bear fruit
A new ISOLDE study of molecules containing pear-shaped atomic nuclei helps shape future research aimed at testing fundamental symmetries of nature